Captain_Photon

Apropos of nothing, I just realized that if you use the "small letter for conjunction" convention, the acronym for the long form some people like to apply to the game title becomes "CHaV".

Jay! We need nylon tracksuits, man! Stat! And they have to have the correct rustling sound effect when you move!

More annoying, yes; less lifelike, no. I deliberately gave it ten seconds because the world record for the 100-meter dash is just short of that. If he's really putting his all into it, that's about as long as an athletic person can keep it up.

But yes, it would be irritating, and largely useless. I was kind of being sarcastic about the whole "more realistic" thing.

Well, no, but we weren't talking about walking just there; I was responding specifically to the assertion that there are people who think Fly is too fast. (Which, er, what? It's a travel power. The point is to go as fast as possible, surely.)

Personally, I don't subscribe to the "we need to be able to walk" business. I think we already move too slowly, and I can see no worthwhile benefit in developer time being expended on something that has no actual gameplay value, no matter how hard you squint. (At least in the original Tomb Raider, if you made Lara walk she couldn't fall off of cliffs.)

That's just me, though. It's the same little part of me that always feels vaguely cheated when they add another comedy emote instead of making a secondary animation for some actual power, even though I enjoy comedy emotes. I'm hardly going to go on strike if they do do it, as long as it's not something any of my characters will ever be required to do; I just think it'd be frivolous.

Handy! I like it.

Sure they do! There are those guys with the hot dog carts in Cap au Diable, for instance ("Your one stop shop for nothing in particular!").

Say, while we're sort of on the subject, isn't it about time someone went through the NPC chatter source files and either redacted or updated the lines that reference events that happened several years ago as if they just happened (I'm looking at you, "Did you hear they reopened the tram line to Salamanca")?

Well, you're in luck, then; it appears they went and jammed one into each and every zone a couple of issues back. You can't miss 'em - they're quite tall and don't go with the textures around them in any way.

No, it wouldn't. It wouldn't make the game one single bit harder. What it would do is make it more annoying.

Now. Jack the normal run speed up to Sprint's level, make Sprint roughly equivalent to Super Speed but with, say, a 10-second toggleon limit (a la Phase Shift's 30-second cutout) and a 50-second cooldown, and you might be on to something.

/powexec_toggleon Hover

Job done!

Uh... yeah. Do it all the time, actually. I hardly ever turn it off until such time as I have Swift properly slotted. I can't abide plodding around at the normal running pace.

Bosh. Well, maybe if someone puts Speed Boost on you and you forget to turn Super Speed off you'll have some difficulty steering, if you're in a blue cave. Apart from that? Faster. Faster. Part of my finite lifespan is passing unusefully while I wait for you. That, as Henry Rollins has observed, is a very small act of murder on your part.

Whom would that inconvenience?

Well, but, hang on, that's like saying "Gore wounds aside, I've enjoyed my weekend in Pamplona."

At the usual game resolution, if they were any smaller we wouldn't be able to see them. It'd look like people were walking around talking to their hands.

*pant* *pant* "How'm I doin'?"

(thumbs up)

"Excellent!"

(back to work)

Isn't that why the mothership is raidable?

Well, originally I expect it was because the designers didn't think it was important. Nowadays it probably has something to do with limiting how many you can keep after a respec. I hasten to note that this is not something I give a damn about, before you think I'm some kind of respec Nazi or something; I'm just speculating as to the developers' motivations for not changing it.

Doubly so, since WSPDR is a radio station.

Well, no, and in fact I usually bin them, but I figured just calling for them to be removed in toto would be too big a single step to take. So, you know. Start with the really stupid ones and work up.

Indeed. Also, any hunt mission that's restricted to a specific neighborhood. Unlike zone-specific hunts, there are no clear delineations between neighborhoods (the popup neighborhood names aren't precise enough for this purpose), and in the course of hunting it's entirely possible to stray out of the one you're supposed to be in, leading to wasted effort and annoyance.

Not really, no - but they do, ironically, sit there stealing kills from the event participants as fast as their little disintegration rays* can recharge. You'd think a group of people so obsessed with defeat badges and "free XP" would notice that and perhaps move to someplace where they aren't, but...


* Yes, yes, "teleport to the Zig." We told you that so you wouldn't get upset. The Invisible Man actually died of a heart attack 25 years ago.

costs about $10.

Will that not cause your System tab to fill up with millions and millions of The power is not yet recharged. messages?